Hertogenbosch No. 3 / 's-Hertogenbosch / Bois-le-Duc / Bossche / Dem Bosch / Den Bosch / Des Hertogenbosch

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Scene Description: Source caption: " 's-Hertogenbosch Rijksmonument 21619 Hinthamerstraat 199 [This is an image of rijksmonument number 21619]"

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Image Source: digital photograph 16 September 2010 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:'s-Hertogenbosch_Rijksmonument_21619_Hinthamerstraat_199.JPG] [accessed 6 February 2022]

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view of font base in context

Scene Description: Source caption: " 'Jan Mosmans bij een zuiltje (voet van doopvont?) afkomstig uit het huis De Swaen, 's-Hertogenbosch"

INFORMATION

FontID: 23730HER
Church/Chapel: [provenance unknown]
Church Location: [location of the font base: het huis De Swaen, Hinthamerstraat 199, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands]
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Noord-Brabant
Directions to Site: the address given for the font at the time is located in the city centre, on the N side of Sint-Janskathedraal; it is now [March 2020] a museum and national monument
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
The Erfgoed 's-Hertogenbosch collections hold a photograph [#0019802] of a man seated next to an obhect that appears to be the base of a medieval(?) baptismal font; the caption of the photograph identifies the man as Jan Mosmans and the object as a column, perhaps the base of a baptismal font from the DeSwaen house in Erfgoed 's-Hertogenbosch; the object itself, covered in a dark and thick wash or paint, appears to consists of two blocks, possibly the remains a baptismal font; the upper block is shaped like a capital, square to round, and is decorated with foliage and/or floral motifs all around; the lower block, is round-to-square, with a roll moulding decorating its upper side. The inventory of Jan Mosmans' Magazijnlijst archief of 20 October 1983 by Annelies van Kasteren/Jan Buiks [https://assets.citynavigator.nl/kuma-erfgoedshbosch/uploads/media/591180e790629/0203-j-mosmans-ht-19e-20e-eeuw.pdf] [accessed 6 February 2022] mentions no font/fragment in it. The location where the font fragment was illustrated, on Hinthamerstraat 199, was listed as a national monument [Rijksmonument De Swaen] in 1984; prior to that it had been a bakery since the 1880s. A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 2 February 2022) informs that he has pursued inquiries extensive inquiries with the archaeological department of the city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch but not been able to get any further information on the whereabouts of this object. [NB: we have no information on the present whereabouts of the object photographed with Jan Mosmans [cf. supra]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.688238, 5.313304
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 41' 17.7" N, 5° 18' 47.9" E
UTM: 31U 659900 5728898

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone